Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-11-03
THE TIMES.
Results Of Prohibition.

account of the prohibitory enactment;
and probably not even Governor Martin
would be absurd enough to say that the
Kansas boom in 1887 Is due to any
other particular cause than the splen
did corps of the year and the general
faith of intending settlers IN the per
manently productive character Of the
Kansas soil. The truth doubtless IS
that prohibition has neither helped
nor hurt Kansas, and that the question
- to what it has done for the real cause
of temperance is stilan open one.
This is in line with the usual course
of whisky organs. They are never will
ing to concede any beneficial effects
whatever to prohibitory laws. In the
first place, they deny that prohibition
prohibits. When you suggest the en-
tire absence Of saloons and the scarcity
Of drunkenness as indisputable evidence
that it does prohibit, they change front
and declare the law it an outrage on the
peoples liberties and that prohibition
does no good. When you corner them
by pointing out the material lessening
of vice and crime as shown by the court
records and the empty jails, and the I'M
proved condition of the laboring classes
and society generally, they take refuge
behind the baseless assertion that pro-
hibition repels immigration and paraly-
yes business.
Admitting the general correctness of
the News position that immigrants are
principally attracted to Kansas by the
productiveness of the soil and the OPP
portunities for business investment, is
it to be supposed that Of the thousands
who annually seek homes in this state
none brought here by desire to live
under prohibition ? In the various
states of the Union there are millions
Of good people who are raising up fam
lilies of children. They have the full
est opportunities to observe the blight
ing effects of saloons upon society: they
see the happiness Of neighboring fam
lilies wrecked and destroyed by the
drunkenness of dissolute sons, and 1t is
but reasonable that many Of them
should desire to remove their own off
spring beyond the reach of temptation.
The preservation of their children
character is more highly valued than
dollars or lands by the right sort Of
parents. People have been known to
remove their residence from one state
to another in order to properly educate
their children; why not to secure
FOR them immunity from the balefpl in
nuencc OF saloons!
In reality, many men who come to.
Kansas and invest their capital and
help to create the general prosperity of
the state are moved by just such mo
tive. We see them every day. There
arc few communities but that can point
out some of its prominent business men
IS belonging to this class. And good
feature is, that these immigrants make
the very best of citizens. There is no
more valuable element of society than
the class of people who have come to
Kansas to breath air unpolIuted by
whisky, while on the other hand the
vicious classes who believe in saloons
and support them are likely to remain
away. This assures us the best class of
immigrants.
The fact that Kansas, prosperity and
prohibition have gone hand in hand is
proof Of their close INTERPRETATION. Kan
sas with prohibition has outstrlpped all
other states in rapid development and
material progress. which to the unpre-
JUDGED mind is strong argument that
prohibition does not retard growth and
prosperity but is conducive to the high
est forms of these benefits. In spite
of criticisms of its enemies, prohibition
has done much for Kansas in every
way, and will do much more in the
years to ome.-Emporia Republican,.
The young Catholic priest and scien-
fist of Charleston, H., who was recent
" created lieutenant in the French
army for valuable discoveries IN the art
Of making Greek fire, which was lost in
the dark ages, about the year 1850.
when gunpowder came into something
like general use, is of the opinion that
the discovery is quite an achievement
Tor science. The compound consists of
naptha and two other ingredients. and
lts powers of destruction are something
marvellous. 1t will so corrode tin as to
dissolve it, while water instead of ex-
tinguiShino it. will only increase ;tS